Everybody comes into a book with their own history, assumptions, and personal experiences. These factors make every book different for each reader. These experiences help to create relationships between readers and characters, or they can make the connections impossible.

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls is no exception. There are bound to be readers who don’t connect; for myself it hit a special spot and really made me look at my own past from a different perspective.

I love a great horror story; fictional monsters can make for a great story. But Hendrix went somewhere else here, these monsters were real; while the story is fiction, the monsters were real, and some might even say with the current political environment that they are still real today.

Hendrix went whole-hog into things with this book. I took this book as an attack on the patriarchy. And why the hell not! There was some really bad shit that went on back then and let’s put it out there. We seem to be heading down a backward road at the moment, and do we really want to go there?

So, this is a fictional horror story that made me create a new perspective on my own personal life. Beyond that, it went balls-deep into social injustices from the past that risk rearing their ugly heads again. How can I not give this book the highest accolades?

*7 Stars